UNIX 4.2 file system query
Divyakant Agrawal
divy at sbcs.UUCP
Mon Apr 22 04:29:54 AEST 1985
UNIX 4.2 allows files to be opened in append mode. I would
like to know if this is "Atomic Append".
For example, if two programs open the same file in append mode,
and append few blocks to the file then is it true that the blocks
will be appended in order (that is first all the blocks of first
program followed by the blocks of the second program, or vice-versa).
Also, if this is true then is the granularity of atomicity is at
block level or is arbitrary.
Thanks in advance.
divy
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